Flickering
Bluelighter
I recently had the most profound trip of my life, on two hits of strong-ish acid. At one point, while dancing to some dark pulsating electronic music, I began to think about... well, all sorts of things at once, they swirled together in a creative, interweaving mix of imaginative energy, to form a confident conclusion: that each and every one of us is part of the same superconscious entity, the human archetype.
Each of us, over our lives as individuals, has developed a distinct personality. This personality is the result of having a (very slightly) different genetic makeup to other humans, a result of different hormone exposure in the womb, a different environment growing up, a different identity or 'ego' imposed through name and expectation - hell, it's the result of simply seeing the world from a unique angle. Strip away all of these facets, and every one of us is essentially the same thing: a human individual. An entity that is derived from the same base DNA code, has the same basic psychological framework, is wired on a template to survive by particular means in a particular environment. Therefore every human who's ever born emerges from that elementary homo sapien archetype. This archetype includes all our emotions, all our tendencies towards beliefs, our desire to procreate, to eat, to sleep, our childhoods and our adolescence and our adulthoods, all of which is contained within the genetic configuration of our bodies. The human archetype is, essentially, our nature without any kind of exposure, without any environment or 'nurture' off which to mould itself.
Like any entity, the human archetype is in constant change. It isn't a static form, else it would die in a changing universe. When its many individual components die, they return to the source, where their deepest unconscious experience is absorbed, and recycled. Each of us is, in essence, a 'scout' for this being we all originate from. We bring back information, it uses the information to make changes to match the environment. These changes manifest themselves through, usually subtle, changes in the genetic code. This is where things get a bit uncomfortable and start to sound like intelligent design or Lamarckian evolution, but then, I have always found it confusing that the mutations in the DNA code are supposed to be totally random, and yet natural selection manages to hone the literally quadrillions of useless possible combinations into the one that works coherently, such as the human body.
A process of such vast complexity as the organisation of the entire human race is one I believe must be, in some sense, conscious. I believe anything of sufficient complexity in this reality has conscious experience. We are used to looking at things from the outside, from a mechanistic point of view, and yet one thing I could never deny is that I, personally, have conscious experience. All I am is a huge organisation of cells. The lower psychological processes that keep those cells together are what I might call the unconscious mind; the higher processes, such as identity, belong to the conscious mind, to put it simplistically. Similarly, a binding process for several BILLION organisms such as myself, must have a mind. It must BE a mind. And when we die, when we return to it, all our individual facets and all our identity is stripped away to resume that vast mind. Perhaps - and I am being hopeful - perhaps that great mind can even recall individual aspects of itself at will, reuniting lovers and families beyond death in a brilliant mental matrix that is, for all intents and purposes, the afterlife.
You, me, everybody, we are a part of this thing. It's who we all really are.
The purpose of this superconsciousness is to orchestrate the human journey. It's like the equivalent of the reasoning part of any human brain. Its home is in the earth, and its physical form is as the subtle energy communicated between each of us human beings. There was more to say, but I seem to have forgotten.
A series of assumptions and none of it particularly scientific, so I don't expect many people will see this as anything more than an acid-addled rant, and perhaps that's what it is. Nonetheless I have nothing better to believe. So I'm going to go with this.
Each of us, over our lives as individuals, has developed a distinct personality. This personality is the result of having a (very slightly) different genetic makeup to other humans, a result of different hormone exposure in the womb, a different environment growing up, a different identity or 'ego' imposed through name and expectation - hell, it's the result of simply seeing the world from a unique angle. Strip away all of these facets, and every one of us is essentially the same thing: a human individual. An entity that is derived from the same base DNA code, has the same basic psychological framework, is wired on a template to survive by particular means in a particular environment. Therefore every human who's ever born emerges from that elementary homo sapien archetype. This archetype includes all our emotions, all our tendencies towards beliefs, our desire to procreate, to eat, to sleep, our childhoods and our adolescence and our adulthoods, all of which is contained within the genetic configuration of our bodies. The human archetype is, essentially, our nature without any kind of exposure, without any environment or 'nurture' off which to mould itself.
Like any entity, the human archetype is in constant change. It isn't a static form, else it would die in a changing universe. When its many individual components die, they return to the source, where their deepest unconscious experience is absorbed, and recycled. Each of us is, in essence, a 'scout' for this being we all originate from. We bring back information, it uses the information to make changes to match the environment. These changes manifest themselves through, usually subtle, changes in the genetic code. This is where things get a bit uncomfortable and start to sound like intelligent design or Lamarckian evolution, but then, I have always found it confusing that the mutations in the DNA code are supposed to be totally random, and yet natural selection manages to hone the literally quadrillions of useless possible combinations into the one that works coherently, such as the human body.
A process of such vast complexity as the organisation of the entire human race is one I believe must be, in some sense, conscious. I believe anything of sufficient complexity in this reality has conscious experience. We are used to looking at things from the outside, from a mechanistic point of view, and yet one thing I could never deny is that I, personally, have conscious experience. All I am is a huge organisation of cells. The lower psychological processes that keep those cells together are what I might call the unconscious mind; the higher processes, such as identity, belong to the conscious mind, to put it simplistically. Similarly, a binding process for several BILLION organisms such as myself, must have a mind. It must BE a mind. And when we die, when we return to it, all our individual facets and all our identity is stripped away to resume that vast mind. Perhaps - and I am being hopeful - perhaps that great mind can even recall individual aspects of itself at will, reuniting lovers and families beyond death in a brilliant mental matrix that is, for all intents and purposes, the afterlife.
You, me, everybody, we are a part of this thing. It's who we all really are.
The purpose of this superconsciousness is to orchestrate the human journey. It's like the equivalent of the reasoning part of any human brain. Its home is in the earth, and its physical form is as the subtle energy communicated between each of us human beings. There was more to say, but I seem to have forgotten.
A series of assumptions and none of it particularly scientific, so I don't expect many people will see this as anything more than an acid-addled rant, and perhaps that's what it is. Nonetheless I have nothing better to believe. So I'm going to go with this.
